ambitionless

1 7.3

Not wanting to become more successful or get a promotion

adjective
/æmˈbɪʃənləs/

: sin ambición

After years of hard work, he realized he was living an ambitionless life, content with mediocrity rather than striving for greatness.

Examples

Many find his ambitionless attitude frustrating.
He seemed ambitionless in his career choices.
His parents were concerned about his ambitionless lifestyle after graduation.
She worried that her ambitionless attitude would prevent her from achieving her goals.
The ambitionless employee showed no interest in pursuing promotions or new responsibilities.
Despite his talent, his ambitionless attitude held him back from pursuing a more fulfilling career.
She felt that her ambitionless friends were satisfied with simply getting by, while she yearned for more opportunities to succeed.

Synonyms

aimless

vsambitionless

13 3.6

Not having a clear goal or plan

concerns lack of desire to achieve rather than missing direction

unmotivated

vsambitionless

8 4.4

Not feeling interest or energy to do something

focuses on lacking desire to achieve rather than low energy to act

unambitious

vsambitionless

3 4.1

Not wanting to try hard to reach higher goals

is the general lack of desire to achieve or advance

Antonyms

ambitious

128 3.7

Wanting very much to succeed and willing to work hard

driven

3.5

Very motivated to act because of strong inner feelings or outside pressure

How Ambitious

driven

3.5

ambitious

128 3.7

motivated

2.5

ambitionless

1 7.3

content

87 1.0

Surface Forms

ambitionless positive

Morphology

ambitionless = ambition (transparent) = ambition + less

The adjective is a straightforward formation from 'ambition' + '-less', meaning 'without ambition' and easily inferable.

Etymology

The word ambitionless comes from ambition, which originally came from a Latin idea of 'going around' to win support and later grew to mean a strong desire to succeed, and the ending -less means 'without', as in hopeless. So ambitionless means 'without ambition', someone who has no wish to get ahead.